"Amazon’s livestreaming service Twitch will police users’ behavior outside of its platform" by Shannon Liao Washington Post, April 7, 2021
Amazon’s livestreaming service Twitch announced Wednesday that it will enforce its conduct policy on extreme behavior that happens outside of its platform. That includes deadly violence, membership in a hate group, terrorism, threats of mass violence, nonconsensual sexual activity, exploitation of children, threats against Twitch staff, and any threats of violence at a Twitch event.
Well, there goes the ad revenue, right?
’'Taking action against misconduct that occurs entirely off our service is a novel approach for both Twitch and the industry at large, but it’s one we believe — and hear from you — is crucial to get right,’' Twitch wrote in a blog post, detailing its new rules that apply to all Twitch users.
Twitch’s rules previously focused on streamers’ behavior on the platform and while it had historically taken action against serious misconduct that happened off platform, it didn’t specify this in its guidelines. (Twitch is owned by Amazon, whose founder, Jeff Bezos, owns The Washington Post.)
The new update is a response to multiple incidents, including the wave of #MeToo allegations that swept the gaming industry last year. When several women raised concerns over Twitch streamers, alleging misconduct, the company realized its current policy around poor behavior that occurs outside of the platform needed more clarity, Twitch spokesperson Gabriella Raila told The Post.
The company wrote that ’'until now, we didn’t have an approach that scaled.’' Previously, Twitch would review harassment that happened outside of its platform and look at evidence before taking action, but it didn’t specifically address users who are leaders or members in hate groups or participate in other extreme behavior.
’'There’s something quite provocative about this gesture at a time when major media companies like Twitter and Facebook were years late in deplatforming white supremacists and domestic terrorists who were openly spreading hate speech and inciting violence on their own social media pages,’' said Laine Nooney, assistant professor and historian of video games at New York University.
The company has been taking different measures in recent months to clean up its platform. In January, Twitch beefed up its policy against hateful images and explicitly banned the Confederate flag. It also remade a popular gaming emote, PogChamp, after the man pictured in the emote tweeted comments that encouraged further violence at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Twitch is hiring a third-party law firm to support investigations and increased the size of its internal team that works with law enforcement, it said. The findings of investigations will be shared with the people involved, but will not be made public by Twitch. Those teams will also look for evidence to verify user reports.
People who report this behavior can submit evidence including direct links to public posts, or uploaded content of the user breaking the rules. Twitch notes that screenshots can still be edited, so they need to be supported with other verifiable evidence or confirmed by the law firm as authentic. Evidence could include police reports, rape kits, texts, emails, photos, or speaking to third parties to corroborate stories, according to Twitch’s Raila.
Twitch all you want, you can't escape the dragnet.
Twitch also stated it currently doesn’t have the capacity to handle other serious offenses that the policy doesn’t mention. The current list of offensive behavior is focused on ’'the most serious offenses that pose an immediate physical safety threat in order to ensure we are equipped to take action when these impact our community.’'
’'Imagine being a female streamer who was sexually assaulted by another member of the Twitch community, but that streamer never ‘officially’ breaks Twitch’s rules. Under Twitch’s previous guidelines, that female streamer had to coexist in the same streaming ecology as their assailant, which definitely wouldn’t feel safe,’' Nooney said. ’'Under the revised rules, Twitch can remove the offending party without needing to find proof in their content at all.’' Instead, the company would prove out misconduct that happened outside of the platform.
Nooney added, ’'In a way, Twitch’s revised guidelines push the platform toward reflecting community norms that are more akin to in-person social relations. I don’t need a friend to be violent in my home to have reason to break off a friendship; I merely need credible evidence that they were violent elsewhere.’'
Can I report Bill Clinton now?
Who knows what secret deals they have cut and from where the financing has come as they listen in on everything.
Speaking of certain groups engaged in blackmail:
"In the week since news broke that the Justice Department is investigating claims that Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, paid for sex with multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, the Donald Trump ally has largely stayed out of the public eye save for an interview on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show to deny the allegations. Now, Gaetz is planning to take center stage later this week as a keynote speaker at a conservative women’s group’s conference at Trump’s Miami golf course. Women for America First, a nonprofit organization of Trump loyalists, orchestrated and publicized a rally on Jan. 6 before the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, and also led bus tours nationwide spreading unfounded claims of election fraud. “We know firsthand what it is like to be treated unfairly by the main stream media,” Amy Kremer, the group’s chairwoman, said in a statement to The Washington Post that defended Gaetz as “innocent until proven guilty.” The event, called the “Save America Summit,” begins Thursday at Trump’s Doral golf resort and also includes appearances from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Representative Louie Gohmert of Texas, all Republicans. Gaetz’s appearance comes as he faces an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into accusations of sexual relationships with underage women in violation of sex trafficking laws. The probe began after Joel Greenberg,a former Florida tax collector now charged with stalking and sex trafficking of a minor, told investigators that Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her travel with him. Gaetz has denied any wrongdoing and claimed that his family is being extorted. The FBI is separately looking into those allegations. Meanwhile, Trump said Wednesday that Gaetz had never asked him for a pardon in a statement in which Trump also noted that Gaetz has “totally denied” accusations of a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old that violated sex trafficking laws. Trump’s statement came in response to a New York Times story that Gaetz privately asked the White House in the final weeks of Trump’s term for blanket preemptive pardons for himself and unidentified congressional allies for any crimes they may have committed. The Times report said that aides told Trump of Gaetz’s request but that it was unclear whether Gaetz discussed the matter directly with Trump. “Congressman Matt Gaetz has never asked me for a pardon,” Trump said in his statement Wednesday. “It must also be remembered that he has totally denied the accusations against him.” The statement was notable for its limited defense of Gaetz, who emerged as a vigorous congressional ally of Trump during his term. The Times reported that some Trump associates have speculated that Gaetz’s request for a group pardon was an attempt to camouflage his own potential criminal exposure in a Justice Department investigation into his sexual conduct. A Gaetz spokesman denied to the Times that Gaetz had privately requested a pardon in connection with the continuing Justice Department inquiry."
The Wa$hington Compo$t further reported that Gaetz repeatedly bragged to several Florida politicians about meeting women through Greenberg, and that on multiple occasions Gaetz showed colleagues images of naked women.
What a fool!
The offending group shall remake unnamed and vaguely mentioned while being buried on page D2:
"One cybercrime gang extorted $75m from targets, study says" by Jamie Tarabay Bloomberg,Updated April 7, 2021
One gang of cybercriminals extorted at least $75 million from private sector companies, local governments, and hospitals, a former NSA contractor concluded in a months-long study released Wednesday, an alarming sign of the potential financial rewards for online attacks.
Or even worse, for that matter, as the WEF Warns of Cyber Attack Leading to Systemic Collapse of the Global Financial System (cur f**king bono, 'eh)?
They are calling it Operation Cyber Polygon, so beware! This is how the Powers That Should not be intend to round us all up and behead us.
Jon DiMaggio, the chief security strategist at Virginia-based Analyst1, estimated the group known as Twisted Spider used the Egregor ransomware to extract at least that amount from his targets, according to publicly acknowledged ransom payments. He believes the real number is much higher, because “many victims never publicly report when they pay a ransom” and the “bad guys don’t post their stuff online.”
They sure have us caught in their web with their mind f**ks.
DiMaggio’s study is a broad examination of attacks in recent months, examining the goals, practices, and payoffs of what he calls the world’s first “ransom cartel.” Gangs like Twisted Spider operate within a web of similar groups, often, often relying on other gangs to hack into corporate networks and insert ransomware into systems.
That insulates the leaders of the group from prosecution. In February, for example, Ukrainian and French police arrested “affiliates” of the ransomware cartel in Ukraine.
It's the Jewi$h mafia, folks.
The gangs of cybercriminals who predominantly originate from Eastern Europe and Russia have built checks and balances into their ransomware to ensure that none of the victims they target are Russian, DiMaggio wrote. The attackers joined forces to steal data and negotiate payment with victims across their command and control structure, and have created malware that checks if the system language they are attempting to infiltrate matches dialects spoken in the former Soviet Union.
Almost as if it were a state operation, which it likely is since this stinks of Mossad tactics and why it is under Russian cover in my pre$$.
“The Cartel gangs do little to hide the fact they speak Russian, and they go out of their way not to target victims within affiliated Russian territories,” wrote DiMaggio, who has in the past conducted vulnerability assessments on classified and unclassified US government networks and was later an intelligence analyst at Symantec.
That is how you know they are NOT Russian!
The Russians “are not prosecuting these individuals and that’s one of the reasons why ransomware appears to originate primarily out of Russia. Those are the guys that don’t get caught because no one is arresting them. The ones that got arrested were arrested in Ukraine,” he told Bloomberg News.
Russians are not prosecuting because these guys are out of their grasp. The organized crime racket is coming from the Obama-created coup regime that Biden $hook down for his son.
The gangs also ran “leak sites” where they would post a company’s hacked data in a bid to shame them into paying ransoms to prevent further sensitive information from being published online.
So where is Julian Assange anyway?
Most worryingly for DiMaggio, was the growing trend of automating attacks. He said the gangs were “spending time and money to improve their malware and to add automation into the code of the ransomware.”
BOTS?
Out of control BOTS?
Again, CUI BONO from this madne$$?
That will lead to a higher volume of attacks; an attack that once consumed a week to a month to stage was now taking hours.
“They’re taking their proceeds and they’re reinvesting in themselves,” he said. “It really reminds me of a business model, they’re professional criminals.”
Like a STATE even!
I mean, what el$e is there to $ay?
